Nesbet, Anne
Summary: It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NESJames, Miranda
Summary: The theater department at Athena is putting on a play by a fledgling playwright with local connections. Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial shots, and his daughter, Laura, will be taking on the lead female role. Luke Lombardi, the guest artist, is someone she knew in Hollywood. The older male actor - whose career in film has been on the wane - arrives with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Miranda
Summary: "Charlie Harris has sworn off investigating murder and mayhem after a recent close call. Instead, he's delighted to cheer on his daughter, Laura, who's starring in a production of Careless Whispers. The theater department at Athena College is debuting the play written by a fledgling playwright with local connections and Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMClark, Mary Jane Behrends.
Summary: After a painful breakup and too few acting gigs in Manhattan, Piper Donavan returns home to Hillwood, N.J., where she's assisting her mother, Terri, at the family bakery, the Icing on the Cupcake. Piper is pleased to be preparing the cake for the upcoming wedding of her friend Glenna Brooks, the star of A Little Rain Must Fall ... but then a cyanide poisoning of one of Glenna's co-stars and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CLAFields, Jan
Summary: From the beginning Jack thinks there is something sinister about the old Dareville Community Theater, where his father is the new caretaker--and that is before the ghost of the actor Victor Dare tells him he must solve the mystery of the actor's disappearance or be haunted forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE FIEParker, Robert B.
Summary: When infamous actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of rape and murder, the Boston PD calls on Spenser to make heads or tails of the case. Although the evidence is mounting against Jumbo, Spenser makes a break when he teams up with Jumbo's bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, and uncovers some secrets involving the murder victim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PARGerard, Anna
Summary: A sequel to Peach Clobbered finds stage-struck proprietor Nina Fleet hosting a community Shakespearean troupe before clashing with the company's director about his claim to her home, only to discover the murdered body of the production's leading man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERWeaver, Ashley
Summary: Walking through London's West End after a night at the theater, Amory Ames and her husband Milo run into wealthy investor and former actor Gerard Holloway. Holloway and his wife Georgina are old friends of theirs, and when Holloway invites them to the dress rehearsal of a new play he is directing. However, Amory is shocked to learn that Holloway has cast his mistress, actress Flora Bell, in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEABrett, Simon
Summary: Landing a minor role in a theater production, Charles Paris is assigned to help the show's famous American star navigate cultural differences in England, an effort that tangles him up in the actor's complicated relationships and a wrongful murder charge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREHallett, Janice
Summary: "The Fairway Players, an amateur theater group, are in the middle of rehearsals for their production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Hayward and his wife, Helen. Their young granddaughter is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and faces an experimental treatment that costs a tremendous sum, so their fellow castmates rally to raise the money to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HallettHawke, Simon.
Summary: Out of work because of the plague, fledgling playwright Will Shakespeare and would-be thespian Symington Smythe become involved in the murder of a wealthy merchant trader by a young craftsman, a situation that inspires a new play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWClark, Mary Jane Behrends.
Summary: Frustrated actress Piper Donovan returns to her New Jersey hometown to work with her mother at the family bakery, where her first job preparing a wedding cake for a soap star is shattered by a murder that is investigated by a handsome FBI agent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAFeeney, Alice
Summary: Meet Aimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can't remember where from.Except one person. Someone knows Aimee very well. They know who she is and they know what she did. When Aimee comes home and discovers her husband is missing, she doesn't seem to know what to do or how to act. The police think she's hiding something andthey're right, she is--but perhaps not what they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FEEGraham, Heather
Summary: After one of her costars is murdered, cult television show host Marnie Davante is plagued by strange events. PI Bryan McFadden is reluctant to get involved in such a bizarre case but is compelled to help when it becomes obvious that Marnie is in grave danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "A deliciously quirky crime novel from David McCallum, the beloved actor know for his portrayal of Illya Kuryakin on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard on NCIS. Crime pays. And pays well. Sal, Max and Enzo Bruschetti have proved this over a lifetime of nefarious activity that they have kept hidden from law enforcement. Nowhere in any file, on any computer is there a record...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCKeene, Carolyn
Summary: Nancy, Bess, and George visit the Hollywood set of the movie "The Aliens Next Door", and try to solve the mystery of the missing leading cat star, Fluffington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KEEMorton, Kate
Summary: During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MORCopperman, E. J.
Summary: Kay Powell, theatrical agent to non-human animals, is babysitting--that is, birdsitting--her client, a parrot named Barney, on the set of his new TV show, Dead City. When the show's charismatic star is shot in his trailer between scenes, the only eyewitness to the crime is--you guessed it--Barney. And even though Kay keeps explaining that even a "talking" parrot doesn't actually converse with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M COPPryor, Mark
Summary: "Hugo Marston has just joined the State Department as head of security at the US Embassy in London. His task is to protect a pair of spoiled movie stars, Dayton Harper and his wife Ginny Ferro, whose reckless driving killed a prominent landowner in rural England"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYPryor, Mark
Summary: "Hugo Marston's friend Paul Rogers dies unexpectedly in a locked room at the American Library in Paris. The police conclude that Rogers died of natural causes, but Hugo is certain mischief is afoot. As he pokes around the library, Hugo discovers that rumors are swirling around some recently donated letters from American actress Isabelle Severin. The reason: they indicate that the actress had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYAnderson, Lin
Summary: Enigmatic Englishman Patrick de Courvoisier is asked to look into the disappearance of Angele Valette, actress and star of the new film, "The Black Pearl."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDCrane, Cheryl
Summary: When Ryan Melton, husband of television star Diara Elliot, is found murdered, realtor and amateur detective Nikki Harper sorts through a tangled web of lies to find the truth before she becomes the next target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRABarnard, Robert.
Summary: When an actor from a daytime soap opera dies under suspicious circumstances, Inspector Charlie Peace finds himself investigating suspects among a group of talented actors and an assortment of extras who exchange unethical services for their roles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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Summary: "Valentino, a mild-manner film archivist at UCLA and sometime film detective, is at the closing party for the Red Montana and Dixie Day museum when he is approached by no less than his hero and man-of-the-hour Red Montana, western film and television star. Red tells Valentino that he is being blackmailed over the existence of a blue film that his wife, now known throughout the world as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2016